Horowitz: How many lives could have been saved by aggressive use of vitamin D alone?



It has always been an unsettling thought: What if our government, instead of obsessively pushing policies that were all pain and no gain – masks, lockdowns, remdesivir, and mRNA gene therapy – had aggressively promoted daily supplementation with vitamin D? Well, a new study of vitamin D treatment lead by a Johns Hopkins researcher purports to show at least 116,000 people could have been saved, and those numbers are likely a fraction of the overall benefit with a preventive regimen of vitamin D to elevate serum levels above 50, not to mention numerous other safe supplements and therapeutics that could have been used.

To determine the association between vitamin D3 and D2 supplementation and COVID-19 infection and mortality, the U.S.-based researchers conducted a retrospective cohort study identifying 220,265 VA patients supplemented with vitamin D3, 34,710 supplemented with vitamin D2, and 407,860 untreated patients both before and during the period of the pandemic. The top-line results were that those veterans supplementing with D2 were associated with a 28% lower chance of testing positive for COVID and those supplementing with D3 were 20% less likely to test positive. But the more important results were the reduced mortality from COVID-associated death, with D3, the most common vitamin D supplementation on the market, resulting in a 33% reduction in mortality.

As the authors note, this would have taken a significant chunk out of the COVID death toll. “When we extrapolate our results for vitamin D3 supplementation to the entire US population in 2020, there would have been approximately 4 million fewer COVID-19 cases and 116,000 deaths avoided,” boldly proclaimed the study authors.

But the numbers are much more poignant than their top-line numbers suggest. While the authors researched both reduced COVID infection and COVID mortality for the top-line numbers, they only published the reduced infection – not reduced mortality data – of the sub-cohorts of levels and cumulative amounts of D supplementation. For example, they found that those who were using 50,000 IUs experienced a 49% reduction in infection rates. One can only imagine that mortality would have been even further reduced with high-dose vitamin D.

We already know that serum levels of D at the time of infection matter to clinical outcomes. An Israeli study showed 25% of hospitalized COVID patients with vitamin D deficiency died, compared to just three percent among those without a deficiency. And those with a deficiency in that Israeli study were also fourteen times more likely to end up with a severe or critical condition. A meta-analysis of 40 pooled studies found that vitamin D supplementation correlated with a 65% reduction of risk for ICU admission. Thus far, there have been 99 treatment and 139 sufficiency studies showing a positive association with COVID outcomes.

This could easily have been the most important early strategy with nursing home patients and is still quite important. Those with absorption problems could have been given the active form of D – either calcifediol or calcitriol – to raise their levels, bypassing the liver’s metabolic process very quickly. Studies have shown that almost anyone hospitalized with low levels but given the active form of D did not progress to the ICU thereafter.

Just consider how safe, cheap, and broadly beneficial vitamin D is for so many other health concerns. This benefit was known from day one, yet it is still being kept quiet, even as concerns grow about a virulent flu and RSV season, and we know vitamin D is an immunomodulator against all respiratory viruses. We know almost half the U.S. population is deficient in D (82% of black people), and many more could probably use a boost. Where are the health department bulletins warning about this, as they do for getting boosters of mRNA gene juice? Where is the obsession to test people’s D levels to ensure they are above 40-50 ngs/mL, just like the obsession about COVID testing? Every pediatrician is being incentivized to shove one vaccine after another on children, but how many even know their patients’ D levels?

While we’ve seen many studies before, this massive sample size has a P value of 0.0001, which makes the likelihood of positive association with vitamin D being due to chance almost nil. It’s also published in Nature’s prestigious-access peer-reviewed journal, Scientific Reports.

To this day, doctors like Eric Nepute are being sued by the Department of Justice for selling supplements they say might be beneficial against COVID. Yet the government refuses to change course based on the evidence. At the same time, the government funds and markets the mRNA vaccines with FDA labels that treat them like perfect, sterilizing vaccines.

All red-state legislatures have an obligation to grill their respective state health directors to see if they are promoting vitamin D with a fraction of the gusto with which they are promoting the mRNA gene therapy.

Horowitz: Studies show an aggressive vitamin D campaign could have prevented nearly all COVID deaths



What if we could simply have advised everyone last March to supplement with vitamin D (and active forms of D for those with absorption issues)? An endless stream of academic research demonstrates that not only would such an approach have worked much better than the vaccines, but rather than coming with sundry known and unknown negative side effects, it would have induced immeasurable positive side effects in the population for an array of other health concerns.

I recently changed doctors in search of a physician who actually follows science rather than political protocols from government and Big Pharma. My wife was searching through my medical records and found that eight years ago, my D level was just 18 ng/mL, well below the cutoff for insufficiency. Yet my former doctor never informed me of it or flagged it as a concern. Fast-forward to today after months of supplementing, thanks to the advice of people like Dr. Ryan Cole, and my level is at 67. This likely means that when the pandemic hit last March, my levels were still woefully low.

According to a new German study, the difference between a level of 18 and one over 50 is the difference between life and death. Why has this education not gotten out to the public, especially now that we are in the winter season, when there is essentially no natural vitamin D from sunlight above the 37th parallel? Or is the obfuscation by design?

With studies having shown zero correlation between lockdowns, masks, and vaccines and better COVID outcomes, there are now 142 studies vouching for the near-perfect correlation between higher vitamin D levels and better outcomes in COVID patients. It is likely the area of COVID-19 treatment research that has the most data behind it. However, a recent German study stands out from all of them because it comes the closest to proving this ironclad correlation to be causation.

Not only did the German researchers find a linear relationship between vitamin D levels and mortality from COVID, they found essentially zero morbidity for those with a D level above 50 ng/mL. The reason this study is so important relative to the dozens of others tracking D levels with COVID outcomes is because it measured the levels months before the patients got COVID as well as after the infection onset. “In most studies, the vitamin D level was determined several days after the onset of infection; therefore, a low vitamin D level may be the result and not the trigger of the course of infection,” note the authors.

This study, however, followed 1,601 hospitalized patients, 784 who had their vitamin D levels measured within a day after admission and 817 whose vitamin D levels were known before infection. As an adjunct to this sample, researchers also analyzed the long-term average vitamin D3 levels documented for 19 countries. The observed median vitamin D value over all collected study cohorts was 23.2 ng/mL, which is considered insufficient. The results were remarkable.

“At a threshold level of 30 ng/mL, mortality decreases considerably,” found the authors. “In addition, our analysis shows that the correlation for the combined datasets intersects the axis at approximately 50 ng/mL, which suggests that this vitamin D3 blood level may prevent any excess mortality. These findings are supported not only by a large infection study, showing the same optimum but also by the natural levels observed in traditional people living in the region where humanity originated from that were able to fight down most (not all) infections in most (not all) individuals.”

Based on these findings, they conclude that people should test their blood levels and supplement to get their levels over 50. Studies have already shown that one is 14 times more likely to die from COVID with vitamin D deficiency

The reality is that most people’s levels are below 30 and many are closer to zero, especially among the elderly population. It is beyond criminal that 20 months into this endeavor there has not been a national campaign percolating down to primary care physicians to test and supplement vitamin D levels accordingly. Think of the numerous benefits of vitamin D — from a healthier immune system and stronger bones to decreased risk for heart attack and cancer — as opposed to the risks of so many of the other things we are harnessing to “fight” this virus. Why on earth would vitamin D not become the new vaccine when it provides more protection against the virus than any vaccine?

What is particularly scandalous is that the authors found that black people living in northern countries have lower vitamin D levels in general, and yet there has been no governmental push to raise awareness of their vitamin D deficiency. Instead, there is a relentless effort to shame them into taking shots that are unsafe and ineffective.

As the authors explain, the main cause of death from COVID stems from a “cytokine storm” when the body’s immune system releases too many toxic cytokines as part of the inflammatory response to the virus. Vitamin D is the key regulator of those cells, and the insufficient amount of D is nearly synonymous with a greater risk for a cytokine storm. In many ways, a cytokine storm is literally the outcome of vitamin D deficiency.

We’ve had 20 months to get our levels over 50, and certainly at least over 30. I had my levels increase by approximately 50 ngs/mL in a half year. Had the public been doing this at the same time, most deaths could have been avoided. Those with absorption problems could have been given the active form of D – either calcifediol or calcitriol – to raise their levels, bypassing the liver’s metabolic process very quickly. Studies have shown that almost anyone hospitalized with low levels but given the active form of D did not progress to the ICU thereafter.

A new study from Turkish researchers found that even a rapid regimen of regular vitamin D3 with the aim of getting people’s levels over 30 was wildly successful compared to people without supplementation. They found that those who used their treatment protocol to get their levels over 30 — even if they had comorbidities — were much better off than those without comorbidities who didn’t supplement. “Our treatment protocol increased the serum 25OHD levels significantly to above 30 ng/mL within two weeks,” concluded the authors. “COVID-19 cases (no comorbidities, no vitamin D treatment, 25OHD <30 ng/mL) had 1.9-fold increased risk of having hospitalization longer than 8 days compared with the cases with comorbidities and vitamin D treatment.”

Hence, if one believes government can violate human rights and place mandates on one’s body to get a job, if the government made a rule that you have to get your D level over 50 in order to get a job, at least it would be following the science. Not only are people with high D levels better off personally, unlike vaccinated individuals with low D levels, they are much less likely to affect other people by spreading the disease because they have lower viral loads. A meta-analysis of 23 published studies containing 11,901 participants found that one who is vitamin D-deficient was 3.3 times more likely to get infected with SARS-CoV-2 than one who is not deficient.

As a nation, we have been willing to harm our children, society, economy, mental health, and physical health with masks, lockdowns, shots, and experimental therapeutics that have zero or limited proven efficacy. Why would we not try an approach that comes with positive, rather than negative, side effects for our whole health? Perhaps the answer lies in what Big Pharma doesn’t want us to know about the benefits of high-dose vitamin D — not just for COVID but for other ailments they rely upon for their existence. All the political policies flow downstream from there.

Horowitz: Why won’t our government even inform people about importance of vitamin D?



Imagine if rather than running out to buy worthless Chinese face diapers or toilet paper last March, there had been a mad rush to stock up on vitamin D. What would our hospitalization rate have been after the initial wave, and after the early science was clear about the efficacy of vitamin D, had government mailed out free vitamin D to every American (especially in nursing homes)? For a fraction of the cost of a shutdown, waning vaccines, remdesivir, and endless welfare, government could have offered free blood tests of everyone's vitamin D, C, and zinc levels and advised a plan to bulk up those levels?

Well, we have a new study that demonstrates a good number of hospitalizations could have been avoided. Government agencies that are censoring information on vitamin D can no longer say the same thing about the vaccines, given how Israel is now showing that the vaccine wears off and the country is preparing for the worst run on hospitals ever, despite nearly every adult having been vaccinated. And unlike the vaccines and everything else our government promoted and mandated, vitamin D comes with no risk, numerous other vital benefits, and empowers rather than controls people.

There is a misnomer that those promoting vitamin D for COVID somehow believe that all people have to do after getting the virus is to take vitamin D and they will suddenly get better (although there is evidence it works in the active form). That is obviously an easy straw man for those who oppose preventives and early treatment to knock down. In reality, while vitamin D is definitely important post-infection, it takes several months to bulk up one's level if it is deficient. A new study recently published in the International Journal of Clinical Practice demonstrates that had Fauci and Co. simply told Americans, especially the vulnerable, to take high doses of Vitamin D (like he does), most of the hospitalizations could have been avoided.

The meta-analysis of 23 published studies containing 11,901 participants found the following:

  • One who is vitamin D deficient was 3.3 times more likely to get infected with SARS-CoV-2 than one who is not deficient.
  • The serum vitamin D concentration, on average, was 20.3 ng/mL among all COVID19 patients but was 16.0 ng/mL among those with severe cases. It's recommended that one's levels be at least over 40.
  • "The chance of developing severe COVID-19 is about five times higher in patients with vitamin D deficiency."
  • A total of 84% of COVID patients in the study were either deficient or insufficient in vitamin D.

In other words, whether your vitamin D level is 15, 30, or 50 will make all the difference in terms of getting a mild, moderate, or severe case of the virus, or perhaps getting it at all. How is it that, to this very day, there is no effort to inform people about such a painless, cheap, and effective fix?

Anecdotally, an ICU doctor in Missouri told me she is the only doctor in her hospital who checks vitamin D levels of COVID patients and indeed she also finds that almost all of those in the ICU have levels below 20.

Dr. Ryan Cole, a Mayo Clinic-trained pathologist who has given lectures to Idaho lawmakers on the intersection of vitamin D and this virus, believes it's almost as if vitamin D was created for this virus. Here is the science behind those numbers:

"Though D is called a vitamin, it is actually a pro hormone responsible for up to 5% of gene activity and protein production in the human body," said Cole, the owner of the largest independent laboratory in Idaho. "Every nucleus in every cell of our body, including our infection-fighting white blood cells, has a D receptor which activates or inactivates countless genes and their signals. D activates our innate immune response (our first line of defense against pathogens), including our neutrophils, macrophages, and natural killer cells, causing them to make peptides with antiviral activity. D also inhibits the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines (those responsible for hyper immune reactions in COVID). When D is deficient, pathways may be turned on, but in the absence of the pro hormone D signal, can't be easily turned off. D is consumed during an infection, so if one goes into an illness without reserves, they are more susceptible to poor outcomes."

In other words, people who are D deficient can mount an immune response to the virus, but lack the immune regulation to ramp down the response when necessary, which causes the uncontrolled cytokine attack on the lungs that we've seen all too often among those in hospitals.

Cole believes that most Americans need much more supplementation than the medical establishment is willing to admit. He believes that with adequate vitamin D, often supplemented by magnesium for those who have absorption issues, it's very difficult to have a cytokine storm, which is the main complication from this virus. Indeed, a Mayo Clinic study found that intubation was rare among those with vitamin D levels over 30. Overall, there have been nearly 100 studies linking low vitamin D levels to worse outcomes for patients with COVID. And again, this is just one supplement. When you add other supplements plus other preventives and early treatment to the equation, a proactive approach to boosting one's immune system is a game-changer against this and many other ailments.

Therefore, inquiring minds should want to know, why won't our government publicize this information and even actively works to discourage or censor these ideas? They claim all these other drugs don't have enough data behind them (which was never an impediment to them promoting remdesivir), but what about vitamin D? Is that not safe either? Dr. Fauci himself told Dr. Kari Hjelt in an email obtained through FOIA that he takes 6,000 IUs of vitamin D a day. Given that the medical establishment has told us the daily value is just 800 IUs, I doubt most people take anywhere near 6,000 IUs. Given the lopsidedly positive data behind COVID outcomes with high vitamin D level, why wouldn't Fauci divulge this secret in every public interview?

"Well, shut up and get the vaccine," will likely be the response. But the latest trends with the virus have demonstrated that even if one is pro-universal vaccination, there is still a need to boost the immune system. Fauci has already said that everyone will need a booster, and the FDA just approved it for the immunocompromised. But these are the people who needed an effective vaccine the most. What is the endgame if the first shot wears off and they are given the same shot again against an ever-mutating virus? Where is the backup plan?

Israel, which has nearly every adult vaccinated and is now giving a third dose to those over 50, is expecting more critical care cases in the hospital than ever before. According to the Times of Israel, the Israeli Health Ministry is bracing for 2,400 critical care cases, double the number they had during the winter peak. But for whom? Those under 12?

We've come full circle when people are being barred from living a functional life unless they show proof of having been vaccinated. But we already know from the CDC that the vaccine does not stop transmission, a vaccinated person carries the same viral load, and now evidently even the personal protection wears off. Yet, given the data on vitamin D levels, if we are going to suspend the Constitution anyway, wouldn't it be more scientific to ask for proof of vitamin D levels and require people to bump their levels over 35 or so? That in itself would do more to stop transmission than this vaccine, based on the preponderance of scientific literature on both the vaccines and vitamin D.

It's become clear that even in the best-case scenario, if the vaccines are not downright causing viral immune escape, they are certainly not more beneficial than a partial solution. That safe and cheap alternatives have not been endorsed is shocking, and that vitamin D is included in that orchestrated information blackout is most revealing of all.

Horowitz: Stay-at-home orders are the worst thing you can do in a pandemic



It's clear that the mask obsession will continue indefinitely, especially in the blue states. When it comes to lockdowns, it might appear that even all the blue states have moved on from them at this point. However, it's important for anyone who cares about liberty and true public health to make sure a provision is codified into law to ban stay-at-home orders in the future. Failure to do so will ensure that lockdowns become the new baseline policy response to any future pandemic flu or even erroneous prediction by the "experts" of an impending pandemic.

If you listen carefully to every governor announcing the end of restrictions (except masks, of course) they are not doing so out of admission that such policies don't work and are actually harmful. It's just that the current case level no longer justifies the continuation of those policies and saddling a Democrat administration with the political liability of the economic consequences headed into the midterm elections. But the minute there is a warning from Fauci and his ilk of another pandemic, perhaps even the return of the seasonal flu, they will immediately push lockdowns.

The numbers have been examined upside-down and inside-out, and nobody can find a single correlation between lockdowns and positive results relative to any control group that did not implement those policies. Dozens of studies have shown zero correlation based on geographical and seasonal comparison. The only correlation between lockdowns and unique outcomes is more unemployment:

LOCKDOWNS VS FREEDOM. Here’s one view showing impact on citizens from governmental Non-Pharmaceutical Intervention… https://t.co/wE2iNeeTeB

— KBirb (@birb_k) 1620142499.0

A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research demonstrates why that is the case.

"Micro evidence contradicts the public-health ideal in which households would be places of solitary confinement and zero transmission," concluded University of Chicago economist Casey B. Mulligan after analyzing the progression of primary and secondary attack rates by profession and comparing them to household rates. "Instead, the evidence suggests that 'households show the highest transmission rates' and that 'households are high-risk settings for the transmission of [COVID-19].'"

We always knew that household transmission was the key ingredient to the pandemic early on. Last year, data from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health showed 83% of cases resulted from household exposure. At the same time, none of the venues from a list of 21 categories – including K-12 schools, restaurants and food courts, and retail and services – ever represented more than 2% of the share of cases.

Thus, we shut down our economies and left people at home for longer periods of time with less ventilation and closer quarters than they would have otherwise spent their time.

What's worse is that when all the public statements from Fauci Inc., state advertisements, and highway signs suggested people should "stay home, save lives," many fearful citizens took that literally. I have neighbors who literally never left their homes and stayed home in close quarters, living with depression and anxiety. Not only did that make it more likely that they would spread the virus to their households if they caught it during one of the times they inevitably had to be around other people, but it depleted their health in a way that made them most vulnerable to this virus. All the evidence shows that exercise, low BMI, and exposure to sun and vitamin D are among the best ways to boost one's immune system against serious illness from COVID-19. The lockdown mentality and policies actually ensured that people would suffer from all three of these vulnerabilities like pouring lighter fluid on a fire.

Weight gain

The mix of panic-inducing anxiety and reduced human activity caused Americans to gain weight … big-time. According to a survey conducted by the American Psychological Association, 61% experienced undesired weight gains during the COVID panic of the past year, with the average weight gain being a whopping 29 pounds. Millennials reported gaining an average of 41 pounds, a trend that will create a long-term time-bomb for heart disease, diabetes, and an endless litany of other ailments.

It turns out, as we've known all along, that obesity is the 800-pound gorilla in the room for almost anyone under the age of 65 who gets a severe case of COVID-19. A CDC study from March found "A J-shaped (nonlinear) relationship was observed between continuous BMI and risk" of three outcomes: ICU admissions, ventilation, and death. Overall, 78% of the people in the study sample who were hospitalized with COVID-19 were overweight or obese. Thus, we took a younger population that was largely unaffected by this virus and made a great many more of them vulnerable through excess weight gain.

Loss of exercise

Not only is exercise critical to staving off obesity, it also puts people at inherently lower risk of serious illness from COVID-19. A recent study of over 48,000 people diagnosed with the virus last year found that lack of exercise makes the patient 1.73 times more likely to die from COVID with those "constantly inactive" being 2.49 times more likely to die.

"Even after we included variables such as obesity and smoking in the analysis, we still saw inactivity was strongly associated with much higher odds of hospitalization, ICU admission, and death compared with moderate physical activity or any activity at all," said one of the co-authors of the study, which was published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. They found that "other than being over age 60 or having a history of organ transplant, being consistently inactive conferred the highest risk for death from COVID-19."

So, what did the government and media do? Encourage everyone to stay home! They even closed the gyms and arrested gym owners. Then the gyms that were opened had mask mandates, and in many places, they mandated masks outdoors. What was the net effect? Further dissuading people from exercising, thereby making them more vulnerable to COVID.

Another American study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that masking led to less exercise. "Cloth face masks led to a 14% reduction in exercise time and 29% decrease in VO2max, attributed to perceived discomfort associated with mask-wearing," concluded the authors of the randomized controlled trial. "Compared with no mask, participants reported feeling increasingly short of breath and claustrophobic at higher exercise intensities while wearing a cloth face mask."

Lack of sunshine

It's already become clear from dozens of studies that one's vitamin D levels are nearly perfectly correlated with outcomes of COVID-illness. Yet so many people took the dictate to stay home literally and never left their houses even to get sunshine. Most Americans are already vitamin D deficient, and government never warned people doing this to take daily high-dose supplements. In fact, they never apprised the public that vitamin D should have been the mask and toilet paper of last spring. The result is that we had people dying a year later after they had months to bump up their vitamin D levels and instead saw them plummet as they avoided the sun's vitamin D as if it were the plague itself. Wearing a mask over the few parts of one's body that are exposed to direct sunlight certainly didn't help either.

Imagine if our government and media had made exercise, weight loss, and vitamin D the crazed obsession that was instead directed to masking and lockdowns, which worked against all three COVID-mitigating strategies. Imagine how many fewer people would have died from COVID and other ailments.

Taken together, I don't think the government could possibly have found a better way to maximize deaths from both COVID and the COVID response than their approach of panic, fear, lockdowns, and masking.

How prophetic were the words of D.A. Henderson, the former dean of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, who is widely credited with helping to eradicate smallpox, when he wrote in 2016 that lockdowns would produce so many negative effects that "this mitigation measure should be eliminated from serious consideration." He advised, "Experience has shown that communities faced with epidemics or other adverse events respond best and with the least anxiety when the normal social functioning of the community is least disrupted." If only we had listened.

Horowitz: To serve the cult of COVID fascism, feds criminally charge chiropractor who marketed lifesaving vitamin D and zinc



The government is not only working with Big Pharma, the media, and Big Tech to censor any lifesaving treatment and medical advice, it is now criminalizing doctors who seek to strengthen the immune systems of their patients. It started with hydroxychloroquine, then continued with ivermectin. Now the government is going after doctors for promoting vitamin D and zinc, two of the most wondrous natural supplements that have proven critical to bolstering one's immune system from serious COVID-19 symptoms.

At a time when the doctors in government and Big Pharma are misleading the public — often with deadly results — about the efficacy of lockdowns, masks, experimental mRNA, and expensive, ineffective treatments like Remdesivir, a Missouri doctor has been charged for marketing a cocktail of vitamin D and zinc as treatment against the virus.

According to KHOU-TV1, Eric Nepute and his company, Quickwork LLC, are facing 10 counts in federal court of violating the "COVID-19 Consumer Protection Act." The Federal Trade Commission contends that this act grants it authority to make a determination that the Missouri chiropractor, who owns several Nepute Wellness Center locations in St. Louis County, "baselessly" claimed his product works against COVID at least as well as the vaccines.

Nepute's crime? He dared use his First Amendment rights to say zinc and vitamin D were better than the experimental mRNA gene therapy. The FTC is charging him with fraud after he claimed "COVID-19 patients who get enough vitamin D are 52% less likely to die" and that his product, Wellness Warriors, is more effective than the vaccines.

"The defendants' claims that their products can stand in for approved COVID-19 vaccines are particularly troubling: we need to be doing everything we can to stop bogus health claims that endanger consumers," acting Chairwoman Rebecca Kelly Slaughter said.

Now that we no longer have freedom of speech in this country, when will Fauci get charged for marketing the vaccines as more effective than previous infection and masks as the single most effective tool against transmission, when a new CDC letter that has been exposed online via a FOIA request shows the agency admitting no evidence of any efficacy exists?

In reality, Nepute is correct. Vitamin D is the master key to the immune system and almost seems to be created just for this virus. Most people who get critically ill from this virus suffer from cytokine storm, in which their own immune systems attack the body because there is not enough vitamin D to regulate the immune response. This is why the elderly and dark-skinned people above the 35th parallel, who are most often vitamin D deficient, are at risk.

A massive study of 14,000 people in Israel showed that almost nobody over 60 who had sufficient vitamin D levels wound up being hospitalized from this virus. A recent study from University of Florida Gainesville found that "patients with vitamin D deficiency were 4.6 times more likely to be positive for COVID-19 than patients with no deficiency." With something as safe and effective as vitamin D, not to mention the myriad of other benefits from it, why isn't the government spending money advertising supplements the way it does experimental vaccines and masks?

What about zinc? Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of immunology or anyone who ever suffers from cold-like viruses understands that zinc is one of the most critical elements in fortifying one's immune system against the prevalence and severity of respiratory viruses. Zinc plays a major role in producing cytokines and developing B cells that play such a dominant role in killing RNA-type viruses. As Dr. Vladimir Zelenko discovered when he prescribed zinc and hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19, zinc blocks the virus from accessing the enzyme needed for viral replication. Thus, much as with vitamin D, most people who have proper levels of zinc in their cells will not have a problem with this virus.

Yet it's estimated that over 20% of people in the world are zinc deficient, particularly the elderly and especially nursing home residents, which is why most people who get seriously ill from this virus are elderly. It's the same people who are vitamin D deficient. This is why a recent study published in Science Direct (Heller, Sun, et al) found that zinc deficiency among patients first admitted to the hospital seemed "to provide the most valuable information about disease course and prognosis." They found in their sample that 73.5% of the patients who ultimately died from the virus had zinc levels below 638.7 Ug/l.

For our government to now criminalize proven preventives against this virus as trade fraud while fraudulently marketing their crony fascism as a cure after 14 months of failure is nothing short of genocide.

And where does this authority come from? Evidently, Trump and the GOP Senate passed this bill as part of the massive 2124-page omnibus bill last December. In chilling language that we now know was likely designed by the ultimate fraudsters – Big Pharma – the bill prohibits "any person, partnership, or corporation to engage in a deceptive act or practice in or affecting commerce associated with the treatment, cure, prevention, mitigation, or diagnosis of COVID–19."

Sadly, last night, Sen. Tim Scott, heralded, "Last year, under Republican leadership, we passed five bipartisan COVID packages." Bipartisan, indeed. We cannot imagine the damage to our liberties that will continue to be unearthed as a result of those bills.

Here's the tragic irony. A poll released last month by the American Psychological Association found that 48 percent of adults who have already been vaccinated still feel "uneasy" about returning to in-person interactions once the pandemic is over. If only the fraudsters in the government and medical establishment had educated these same people for 14 months about natural supplements to elevate their vitamin D, vitamin C, and zinc levels and to have ivermectin on the shelf to be used at the first sign of trouble, most people would no longer fear the virus because almost nobody would die from it.

Sadly, fear is what they want. We've learned this week that Fauci and his ilk never plan to relinquish their control. The only way they can get away with promoting irrational and internally conflicting policies is by keeping the masses in a state of irrational fear. We can only take comfort in the fact that God in his heavenly court is keeping track of these atrocities and one day will punish them for committing the ultimate trade fraud.

Horowitz: Why are public health 'experts' ignoring proactive ways to neutralize COVID-19 while promoting failed drugs?



Why not educate people on how to fortify their bodies against their likely inevitable exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus rather than selling them the false promise of avoiding the virus without any knowledge of how deal with it? Why are the politicians peddling medical advice while the health care industry is selling us politics?

At present, there is no effective way to stop the spread of or somehow hide or run from the coronavirus. There is also no vaccine and there is unlikely to ever be a fully effective one, especially for the most vulnerable people. The best tool we currently have is to effectively treat the symptoms early on with cheap drugs and vitamins, especially when taken as a prophylaxis. Yet, especially as it relates to the anti-malaria drug Hydroxychloroquine, it remains the one thing our government and media will shun, and in some states, even ban rather than promote.

Additionally, it has been proven that vitamin D and zinc fortify the immune system and help ward off serious illness. Every American knows they "need" to wear a mask and isolate themselves, despite the fact that these destructive measures have failed to stop the spread. What they have not been told is to stock up on vitamins that are proven to help against the virus. The reason is because that would empower people rather than scare them into submission. That is why so many medical doctors seem to be ignoring the opportunity to offer medical advice and are seizing the opportunity to offer us political advice and run our lives.

That is why seven months into this virus, people are still in the dark about the best way to fortify their immune system or ward off symptoms early on – or what to even watch for in terms of early symptoms. The formula from our government is essentially this: "shut up, mask up, and avoid getting a virus that 60 million Americans likely already got, and if you get it bad, we will just put you on Remdesivir and a ventilator."

The protocol for pharmacological management of COVID-19 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) shockingly recommends "no specific antiviral or immunomodulatory therapy" for those who are sick with the virus in the earlier or milder stages, or even hospitalized so long as they don't need supplemental oxygen. It's only once they reach that stage and more critical levels that the NIH recommends treatment. What is the treatment? Remdesivir, Remdesivir, and Remdesivir.

This guidance is problematic on two accounts. It ignores all the promising research behind the use of zinc, vitamin D, and hydroxychloroquine before the illness becomes critical, and then opts for a treatment that has proven ineffective once it's too late. They are either willfully trying to endanger more lives in order to further spread panic or they are bought out by big Pharma.

First, even before getting to hydroxychloroquine as a cheap and effective treatment for early stages of the virus, why is the NIH not educating the public on the use of vitamin D early and often?

A new study conducted at the University Hospital Marques de Valdecilla in Spain, analyzed 216 patients admitted to the hospital for the coronavirus to see if they had vitamin D deficiency. They found that 80% of them showed lower levels of vitamin D compared to a similar demographic used as a control group who were given regular vitamin D supplements. Interestingly enough, the study also found lower levels among men, which might explain why men seem to be more at risk than women for severe illness. An Italian study found that low vitamin D levels also seemed to correlate with more severe cases among those in the hospital.

The role that vitamin D plays in lessening susceptibility to illness is so stark that a U.K. study from May found a remarkable correlation between vitamin D levels of entire population and COVID-19 death rates by country. Belgium, which still has the highest death rate in Europe, has very low vitamin D levels, while all the Scandinavian counties, which fared well against the virus, had the highest levels of vitamin D in Europe.

In May, one New York doctor, Dr. Eric Ascher, in explaining the possible reason why his city was hit so hard, told the media, "I'm more shocked when a patient has a normal vitamin D level."

There are endless studies, nearly uncontradicted, proving the efficacy of vitamin D as a prophylaxis, along with vitamin C, Zinc, and of course, hydroxychloroquine. In fact, 154 studies, 91 of which were peer reviewed, have shown efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in the early stages of COVID-19.

So why wouldn't Dr. Fauci and his buddies at NIH tell people to fortify their bodies with these cheap drugs and vitamins early on and perhaps even preemptively? This is especially salient as his own NIH, while he was the director of the entire agency in 2005, published a paper on the efficacy of this cheap drug against SARS-1.

It wasn't until mid-September that Fauci even mentioned the use of vitamin D, and it was a very feeble, passive endorsement in response to a question by actress Jennifer Garner.

"I would not mind recommending, and I do it myself taking vitamin D supplements," said Fauci of vitamin D in response to Garner's question on a Sept. 10 Instagram live Q&A. And yeah, maybe throw in some vitamin C if you want.

"So if people want to take a gram or two at the most [of] vitamin C, that would be fine," said Fauci. That's not exactly a resounding endorsement of a proactive strategy that is backed by tons of research.

So why the equivocation and reluctance to actively teach the public about fortifying their immune systems?

Well, the answer is precisely because these remedies are so cheap and precisely because they want to push expensive drugs like Remdesivir. So what are the results after charging hospitals (aka the government) $3,000 a pop? Two weeks ago, World Health Organization scientists published a pre-printed study of Remdesivir use in 11,000 patients across 400 hospitals in the world. This was one of the largest clinical trials of a COVID-19 treatment to date. The study found that it neither lowered the mortality rate nor truncated time of stay in the hospital.

According to the U.K. Guardian, Gilead, the maker of Remdesivir, found out about the results of the WHO study 10 days before publication, but still signed an €850m contract with the European Commission for 500,000 doses, even though the recipients were not yet aware of the results of this blockbuster clinical trial.

Although the same WHO study found hydroxychloroquine ineffective in hospitalized patients, a recent Harvard study has already found that it is effective as a prophylaxis in reducing infection by 20%. Yet, the FDA has rescinded its approval of the drug. At the same time, Science Magazine reported this week that the FDA never consulted with the Antimicrobial Drugs Advisory Committee (ADAC) before approving Remdesivir on Oct. 22.

ADAC is a group of infectious disease clinicians, biostatisticians, and pharmacists who review the data on experimental drugs and make recommendations to the FDA regarding their approval. While they are not required to seek the opinion of the committee, it's quite suspicious that the FDA chose to bypass them on something this important.

So, why do our "public health experts" tout failed expensive drugs at critical stages of the disease when there are proven effective ways to reduce the risk of ever getting to that stage, and for dirt cheap? I hate to say it, but corporate cronyism is the least insidious answer to this question.